France Prešeren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

France Prešeren

Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1800

Place of Birth: Vrba, Žirovnica Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 08-Feb-1849

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, poet lawyer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About France Prešeren

  • France Prešeren (pronounced [f?an'ts? p??'?e???n] (listen)) (2 or 3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bengali, as well as to all the languages of former Yugoslavia, and in 2013 a complete collection of his "Poezije" (Poems) was translated to French.He has been generally acknowledged as the greatest Slovene classical poet and has inspired virtually all later Slovene literature.
  • He wrote some high quality epic poetry, for example the first Slovene ballad and the first Slovene epic.
  • After his death, he became the leading name of the Slovene literary canon.He tied together the motifs of his own unhappy love with that of an unhappy, subjugated homeland.
  • Especially after World War II in the Slovene Lands, one of Prešeren's motifs, the "hostile fortune", has been adopted by Slovenes as a national myth, and Prešeren has been described being as ubiquitous as the air in Slovene culture.During his lifetime, Prešeren lived in conflict with both the civil and religious establishment, as well as with the provincial bourgeoisie of Ljubljana.
  • He fell victim to severe drinking problems and tried to take his life on at least two occasions, facing rejections and seeing most of his closest friends die tragically.
  • His lyric poetry dealt with the love towards his homeland, the suffering humanity, as well as his unfulfilled love towards his muse, Julija Primic.Although he wrote in Slovene, some poems were also written in German.
  • As he lived in Carniola, he at first regarded himself a Carniolan, but gradually took the broader Slovene identity.

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